| <chapter id="intro-history" xreflabel="History"> |
| |
| <title>Repository History</title> |
| |
| <para> |
| The CentOS Artwork Repository started at <ulink |
| url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">The CentOS Developers |
| Mailing List</ulink> around 2008, on a discussion about how to |
| automate slide images used by Anaconda. In such discussion, |
| Ralph Angenendt rose up his hand to ask —Do you have |
| something to show?—. |
| </para> |
| |
| <para> |
| To answer the question, Alain Reguera Delgado suggested a bash |
| script which combined SVG and SED files in order to produce |
| PNG images in different languages —in conjunction with |
| the proposition of creating a Subversion repository where |
| translations and image production could be distributed inside |
| The CentOS Community—. |
| </para> |
| |
| <para> |
| Karanbirn Sighn considered the idea intresting and provided |
| the infrastructure necessary to support the effort. This way, |
| The CentOS Artwork SIG and The CentOS Artwork Repository were |
| officially created and world wide available in the following |
| two locations, respectively: |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/svn/arttwork/">https://projects.centos.org/trac/artwork/</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/trac/arttwork/">https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork/</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </para> |
| |
| <para> |
| Once The CentOS Artwork Repository was available, Alain |
| Reguera Delgado uploaded the bash script Anaconda slides; |
| Ralph Angenendt documented it very well; and people started to |
| download working copies of CentOS Artwork Repository to |
| produce slide images in their own languages. |
| </para> |
| |
| &intro-history-2009; |
| &intro-history-2010; |
| &intro-history-2011; |
| |
| </chapter> |